Dean Smith Basketball News & Bio

Name: Dean Smith Hometown: Emporia, KS High School: Emporia Born: February 28, 1931 Died: February 7, 2015 Notes: Basketball Hall of Fame, 4x NCAA Coach of the Year, 1982 NCAA Championship coach, 879 wins

Tar Heel Blog Podcast: Michael Brooker Special
Michael Brooker discusses his current career as the head boys’ basketball coach at Lake Oconee Academy in Georgia and the influence that coaches Dean Smith...
Fri Aug 25, 2017

Former UNC player Michael Brooker shares personal recruiting letters from Dean Smith
Former UNC basketball player Michael Brooker played for the Tar Heels from 1997-2001. He redshirted during the 1996-97 season. He is currently head boys basketball...
Fri Aug 11, 2017

Photos: Michael Jordan, Sam Perkins spend a day on the UNC campus in Oct. 1983
In Nov. 1983, Sports Illustrated's Curry Kirkpatrick wrote a cover story about Michael Jordan and Sam Perkins, who at the time were stars of the...
Thu Aug 10, 2017

See Dean Smith’s handwritten note to a recruit
Dean Smith was a prodigious letter writer, and since his death in 2015, an increasing number of those letters have been making their way to...
Tue Aug 8, 2017

Art’s Angle: The Mission of Dean Smith
Now that the NCAA has acknowledged it has no jurisdiction over the sanctioned courses offered at its more than 1,000 member institutions, it is time...
Sat Aug 5, 2017

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